Large Soviet forces have to cross the length of one board over a thrre board front. The Germans can deploy elements of the Grossdeutschland divison. This was played solo and I deployed the Germans in hedgehog defence centred around towns and hills with a reserve of a Stug,SPW, Gren and a leader on each board. I split the Red Army into three groups one for each board. The Soviet steamroller lumbered on and took heavy losses from the German artillery, even so the forces on the German left (Board 22) looked in trouble and twogroups of German reserves threw themselves into the fight and stopped the Soviet advance this part of the battle then settled into a hand to hand fight over the village. The losses that the centre took made the Soviet group thier veer to the German right flank, which now was looking shakey however the German forces which were released in the centre now counter attacked the flank of the attacking Red Army. The reult was that only scattered Soviet units managed to get off the board and with the unability to take any town hexes the result was a major German victory. This is a good slugfest battle and in hindsight the Russians should overload one flank in a bid to get at least 25 steps off the board. This is worth in effect 50 vps and should make this a more closer result.